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The beauty of distance : songs of survival in a precarious age /

Contributor(s): Publisher: Woolloomooloo, N.S.W. : Biennale of Sydney, 2010Edition: 1st editionDescription: 351 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780646527949
  • 0646527940
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Adel Abdessemed -- Adel Abidin -- AES+F -- Makoto Aida -- Brook Andrew -- Kutluǧ Ataman -- Kadar Attia -- Lara Baladi -- Roger Ballen -- Jonathan Barnbrook -- John Bock -- Conrad Botes -- Louise Bourgeois -- Cai Guo-Qiang -- Cao Fei -- Jota Castro -- Enrique Chagoya -- Jake and Dinos Chapman -- Choi Jeong Hwa --Chto Delat -- Dana Claxton -- Marcus Coates -- Lorraine Connelly-Northey -- Shane Cotton -- Daniel Crooks -- Danica Dakić -- Aleks Danko -- Folkert de Jong -- Beau Dick -- Claudio Dicochea -- Mikala Dwyer -- Garder Eide Einarsson -- Brodie Ellis -- Angela Ellsworth -- Fiona Foley -- Dale Frank -- Regina José Galindo -- Tarryn Gill and Pilalr Mata Dupont -- Rodney Glick -- Brett Graham -- Rodney Graham -- Richard Grayson -- Joy Gregory -- Jason Greig -- Gonkar Gyatso -- Fiona Hall -- Newell Harry -- Peter Hennessey -- Susan Hiller -- Shirazeh Houshiary -- Tiina Itkonen -- Martin Jacobson --Christian Jankowski -- Kim Jones -- Dapeni Jonevari -- Isaac Julien -- Amal Kenawy -- Rachel Kneebone -- Ola Kolehmainen -- Katarzyna Kozyra -- Yayoi Kusama -- Owen Land -- Larrakitj, Yolngu artists -- Janet Lawrence -- Liu Jianhua -- Jennifer Wen Ma -- Paul McCarthy -- Kate McMillan -- Robert MacPherson -- Steve McQueen -- Mieskuoro Huutajat (Shouting Men's Choir) -- Nandipha Mntambo -- Kent Monkman -- Julia Morison -- Alex Morrison -- Djon Mundine -- Ciprian Mureşan -- Marianne Nicolson -- David Noonan -- Roxy Paine -- Fiona Pardington -- Reuben Paterson -- Christopher Pease -- Rosslynd Piggott -- Annie Pootoogook -- pvi Collective -- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook -- Skeena Reece -- Håkan Rehnberg -- Berthold Reiß -- Miguel Angel Rios -- Hiraki Sawa -- Raqib Shaw -- Shaomin Shen -- Eileen Simpson & Ben White -- Penny Siopis -- Slave Pianos -- Serge Spitzer -- Kamen Stoyanov -- Angela Su -- Hiroshi Sugimoto -- Sun Yuan & Peng Yu -- SuperDeluxe -- Hisashi Tenmyouya -- Althea Thauberger -- Christian Thompson -- Tiger Lillies -- Yvonne Todd -- Barthélémy Toguo -- Fred Tomaselli -- Mette Tronvoll -- Tsang Kin-Wah -- Salla Tykkä -- Stella Upia --Mariana Vassileva -- Bill Viola -- Gunnel Wåhlstrand -- Mark Wallinger -- Wang Qingsong -- Rohan Wealleans -- Ming Wong -- Jemima Wyman -- Akira Yamaguchi -- Yang Fudong. Foreword / Luca Belgiorno-Nettis -- Preface / Marah Braye -- Interlude I : Arthur Schopenhauer (1818) : from distance to beauty to the sublime -- The beauty of distance : Songs of survival in a precarious age / David Elliot -- Big things went before / Bob Dylan -- Marvel and the Jurassic (toward a natural history of wonder) / Lawrence Weschler -- The anatomy of a collector / Harry Smith -- Harry Smith : An alchemical ethnographer / Rani Singh -- Damned souls and turning wheels : History and song - Cockatoo Island / Warren Fahey -- A detailed system of human knowledge / Jean Le Rond D'Alembert (1751) -- Panopticon ; or the inspection-house / Jeremy Bentham (1791) -- Bentham's Panopticon / Michel Foucault -- Interview with Ryuyong Hotel, Pyongyang, DPRK / David Elliott -- The ship of fools / Dougal Phillips -- Voyages and encounters : Captain John Smith, New England, 1608 ; George Catlin, Canada, 1832 ; Governor Arthur Phillip, Australia, 1788 ; George Worgan, Australia, 1788 -- Closing the distanve, maintaining the difference: the art of the Larrakitj / Howard Murphy -- A new world / Jimmie Durham -- Land, language, identity: Aboriginal Canadian realities / Gerald McMaster -- Viewing tradition: Exploring a Māori Aesthetic / Ngahiraka Mason -- Desert Aesthetics: The way of the water / Bruce W. Ferguson -- Fragments from 'Towards a social-psychologistical theory of fatiscism' / Suhail Malik -- Raven the trickster and the sacred clown / Skeena Reece -- Interlude II : Survival -- The Plates -- Artist Biographies -- Interlude III : Mystery is a fact -- List of exhibited works.
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Adel Abdessemed -- Adel Abidin -- AES+F -- Makoto Aida -- Brook Andrew -- Kutluǧ Ataman -- Kadar Attia -- Lara Baladi -- Roger Ballen -- Jonathan Barnbrook -- John Bock -- Conrad Botes -- Louise Bourgeois -- Cai Guo-Qiang -- Cao Fei -- Jota Castro -- Enrique Chagoya -- Jake and Dinos Chapman -- Choi Jeong Hwa --Chto Delat -- Dana Claxton -- Marcus Coates -- Lorraine Connelly-Northey -- Shane Cotton -- Daniel Crooks -- Danica Dakić -- Aleks Danko -- Folkert de Jong -- Beau Dick -- Claudio Dicochea -- Mikala Dwyer -- Garder Eide Einarsson -- Brodie Ellis -- Angela Ellsworth -- Fiona Foley -- Dale Frank -- Regina José Galindo -- Tarryn Gill and Pilalr Mata Dupont -- Rodney Glick -- Brett Graham -- Rodney Graham -- Richard Grayson -- Joy Gregory -- Jason Greig -- Gonkar Gyatso -- Fiona Hall -- Newell Harry -- Peter Hennessey -- Susan Hiller -- Shirazeh Houshiary -- Tiina Itkonen -- Martin Jacobson --Christian Jankowski -- Kim Jones -- Dapeni Jonevari -- Isaac Julien -- Amal Kenawy -- Rachel Kneebone -- Ola Kolehmainen -- Katarzyna Kozyra -- Yayoi Kusama -- Owen Land -- Larrakitj, Yolngu artists -- Janet Lawrence -- Liu Jianhua -- Jennifer Wen Ma -- Paul McCarthy -- Kate McMillan -- Robert MacPherson -- Steve McQueen -- Mieskuoro Huutajat (Shouting Men's Choir) -- Nandipha Mntambo -- Kent Monkman -- Julia Morison -- Alex Morrison -- Djon Mundine -- Ciprian Mureşan -- Marianne Nicolson -- David Noonan -- Roxy Paine -- Fiona Pardington -- Reuben Paterson -- Christopher Pease -- Rosslynd Piggott -- Annie Pootoogook -- pvi Collective -- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook -- Skeena Reece -- Håkan Rehnberg -- Berthold Reiß -- Miguel Angel Rios -- Hiraki Sawa -- Raqib Shaw -- Shaomin Shen -- Eileen Simpson & Ben White -- Penny Siopis -- Slave Pianos -- Serge Spitzer -- Kamen Stoyanov -- Angela Su -- Hiroshi Sugimoto -- Sun Yuan & Peng Yu -- SuperDeluxe -- Hisashi Tenmyouya -- Althea Thauberger -- Christian Thompson -- Tiger Lillies -- Yvonne Todd -- Barthélémy Toguo -- Fred Tomaselli -- Mette Tronvoll -- Tsang Kin-Wah -- Salla Tykkä -- Stella Upia --Mariana Vassileva -- Bill Viola -- Gunnel Wåhlstrand -- Mark Wallinger -- Wang Qingsong -- Rohan Wealleans -- Ming Wong -- Jemima Wyman -- Akira Yamaguchi -- Yang Fudong. Foreword / Luca Belgiorno-Nettis -- Preface / Marah Braye -- Interlude I : Arthur Schopenhauer (1818) : from distance to beauty to the sublime -- The beauty of distance : Songs of survival in a precarious age / David Elliot -- Big things went before / Bob Dylan -- Marvel and the Jurassic (toward a natural history of wonder) / Lawrence Weschler -- The anatomy of a collector / Harry Smith -- Harry Smith : An alchemical ethnographer / Rani Singh -- Damned souls and turning wheels : History and song - Cockatoo Island / Warren Fahey -- A detailed system of human knowledge / Jean Le Rond D'Alembert (1751) -- Panopticon ; or the inspection-house / Jeremy Bentham (1791) -- Bentham's Panopticon / Michel Foucault -- Interview with Ryuyong Hotel, Pyongyang, DPRK / David Elliott -- The ship of fools / Dougal Phillips -- Voyages and encounters : Captain John Smith, New England, 1608 ; George Catlin, Canada, 1832 ; Governor Arthur Phillip, Australia, 1788 ; George Worgan, Australia, 1788 -- Closing the distanve, maintaining the difference: the art of the Larrakitj / Howard Murphy -- A new world / Jimmie Durham -- Land, language, identity: Aboriginal Canadian realities / Gerald McMaster -- Viewing tradition: Exploring a Māori Aesthetic / Ngahiraka Mason -- Desert Aesthetics: The way of the water / Bruce W. Ferguson -- Fragments from 'Towards a social-psychologistical theory of fatiscism' / Suhail Malik -- Raven the trickster and the sacred clown / Skeena Reece -- Interlude II : Survival -- The Plates -- Artist Biographies -- Interlude III : Mystery is a fact -- List of exhibited works.

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